Hungaroring FR3.5: Late heartbreak for Kevin Magnussen hands Antonio Felix da Costa maiden win

Magnussen and da Costa had led the way from the beginning, when they both capitalised on poleman and championship leader Robin Frijns bogging down as the lights went out.

Red Bull junior da Costa could do nothing about the Carlin car in the lead though, and Magnussen had the gap up to almost seven seconds by the time both had completed their mandatory stops on lap 13.

But from there da Costa was able to chip away at the leader, and with a handful of laps to go smoke started appearing from the right-rear of Magnussen's car.

The Dane appeared to be doing enough to hold onto the lead, going into the final lap still 3.5 seconds clear. That was down to three seconds by the first split, and then Magnussen's car ground to a halt at Turn 5 with a gearbox issue.

That gave da Costa, , the lead with just over half a lap remaining.

Behind the winner, Marco Sorensen took advantage of making a late pitstop to jump from fifth to third, which became second when Magnussen retired.

One Carlin driver's pain was another's gain though, as Will Stevens inherited third to take his first podium in the series.

Stevens had run third in the opening stint after working his way from sixth on the grid at the start, but he had been no match for Sorensen when the Dane had clear track.

Sam Bird was another to make up places at the start, and after a race spent defending his position from Arthur Pic and title rival Frijns, he came home fourth.

Frijns took fifth, capitalising on an error from Pic on the exit of Turn 2 to pull off a spectacular pass around the outside of Turn 4. He had already passed the Frenchman earlier in the race, but lost the position during the pitstops.

The Dutchman's recovery was eventful all the way through, particularly when he locked wheels with Kevin Korjus after the Estonian exited the pits between him and Pic.

Frijns went down the inside at Turn 2, but as the cars became stuck together they ran wide. Alexander Rossi tried to capitalise, but in the madness ended up on the grass approaching Turn 3.

Results - 30 laps:

Pos  Driver                  Team               Time/Gap
 1.  Antonio Felix da Costa  Arden Caterham   46m24.229s
 2.  Marco Sorensen          Lotus              + 3.666s
 3.  Will Stevens            Carlin            + 10.533s
 4.  Sam Bird                ISR               + 19.784s
 5.  Robin Frijns            Fortec            + 20.343s
 6.  Arthur Pic              DAMS              + 22.789s
 7.  Kevin Korjus            Lotus             + 24.557s
 8.  Alexander Rossi         Arden Caterham    + 25.624s
 9.  Jules Bianchi           Tech 1            + 31.183s
10.  Walter Grubmuller       P1                + 33.414s
11.  Tamas Pal Kiss          BVM Target        + 36.422s
12.  Carlos Huertas          Fortec            + 37.826s
13.  Lucas Foresti           DAMS              + 49.452s
14.  Nikolay Martsenko       BVM Target        + 49.998s
15.  Daniil Move             P1                + 59.931s
16.  Zoel Amberg             Pons            + 1m04.779s
17.  Vittorio Ghirelli       Comtec          + 1m09.389s
18.  Aaro Vainio             RFR             + 1m11.082s
19.  Mikhail Aleshin         RFR             + 1m11.605p
20.  Nick Yelloly            Comtec          + 1m13.714s
21.  Yann Cunha              Pons            + 1m15.356s
22.  Jake Rosenzweig         ISR             + 1m22.784s
23.  Kevin Magnussen         Carlin              + 1 lap
24.  Daniel Abt              Tech 1             + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Nico Muller             Draco                9 laps
     Andre Negrao            Draco                 1 lap